An au revoir but not goodbye from outgoing HA President Professor Jackie Eales Jackie Eales has been an enthusiastic President for the last three years who has been very happy to visit many of the branches to give lectures and to assist in key HA events. Jackie's lectures at the...

This year the Historical Association's Medlicott medal for services to history went to Professor Sir Richard Evans. Richard Evans is the Regius Professor of History at Cambridge and President of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He has written numerous highly respected and internationally best-selling books. Evans is bests known for his works on...

From the 28 June 1914 till the end of July 1914 the world held its breath; would Europe be thrown into war? We now know that the answer was yes.Diplomacy had failed, some would say it never really stood a chance, others will argue that nothing was inevitable until the...

On 17th July 1964, Sir Donald Campbell fired up the Proteus turbo-prop engine of 'Bluebird' and set off onto the salt flats of Lake Eyre in Australia, in an attempt to break the World Land Speed Record. Conditions were not perfect and the surface was damp but Campbell was undaunted.On...

Short talk given on 2nd June, 2014 to the Irish Federation of Local History Societies. Speaker: Marie Davidson, assisted by Richard Binns with drawings As Secretary of the Glasgow & West of Scotland Branch of the Historical Association may I thank Mr Breen for inviting me to speak to you...

On Saturday 28th of June it will be 100 years since the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated with his wife Sophie in Sarajevo. As everyone knows or will know after this summer that assassination led to the start of the First World War.The young man who fired the shot Gavrilo...

We are delighted to announce that Professor Justin Champion was confirmed as President to succeed Professor Jackie Eales at the AGM on 16 May 2014. Justin is a strong advocate of public history and is involved with the HA's Public History Committee. He is Professor of the History of Early...

The judges met on 27th June 2013 to discuss the entries they had all previously read. These entries were all very good and came from a range of periods - Tudor and Stuart England, the sixteenth, eighteenth and twentieth centuries and covered such diverse topics as smuggling, the Reformation, revolution...

On June 18 2013 David Cannadine will formally receive the Historical Association's Medlicott Medal for Services to History. In anticipation of the evening awards event that will culminate in a lecture by Professor Cannadine, we met with the great man to reflect on his award and his career. During the...

The Historical Association is again proud to support the work of Archives and Archivists by presenting its award for Best Dissertation 2012. The winner is Ronan Deazley: 'The Yeti in the Archive: Copyright, Risk and Reform,' from the University of Glasgow. The judges said ' This is a hot topic that...